Kaliganj langcha
কালীগঞ্জের ল্যাংচা
Long, dark fried sweets soaked in syrup that sell out at Kaliganj shops by midday.
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Langcha is a fried, elongated sweet made from chhana and flour, cooked until dark brown and then dipped in syrup. In Kaliganj it is the sweet everyone names first, and the popular shops sell hundreds of kilograms a day. Inside it is soft and juicy, outside slightly firm. Buy early in the day.
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